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Excerpt from The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast, Vol. 9 That these disciples remained in Jerusalem for ten years after the Ascension, perfecting their principles of worship and government. Then from Jerusalem, as from a common center, they radiated in all directions, bearing the gospel of a new dispensation. Some reached Rome - there is no historical evidence to prove that Peter was among them succeeded in introducing Christianity, and from the Eter nal City, as a second center, their followers spread over the vast domain of the Roman Empire. The same zealous souls that preached The Kingdom of God is at hand in the streets of Rome carried the joyful news to Britain - some claiming St. Paul himself went thither. The simple inhabitants of that lonely isle eagerly received the glad tidings. The incursions of the Angles and Saxons soon followed. The simple faith was swept before these heathen invaders into the mountain fastnesses of Wales and across the waters into Ireland, and there confined until Augustine, a Roman monk, sent thither by Gregory I converted the Saxons. Under and after Augustine, almost all of England was Christianized, and at the time of the Norman conquest the church was firmly established and known as the Church of England, on an equal footing with the Church of Rome and the Church of Constanti nople. A short while prior to the conquest, the Bishops of Rome, called Popes, were beginning to assert their supremacy over all other bishops, Rome being the chief city of the then civilized world. The Church of England, though certainly recognizing the Bishop of Rome as pri mate, the holder of the first see of the Christian world, denied his supremacy, either temporal or spiritual, steadily resisted the growing encroachments on her rights, and stoutly affirmed the independence of her clergy. That up to the time of the Norman' invasion her independence was unquestioned, is clear from the fact that the Pope blessed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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